On Dec. 12, 2023, NASA’s Perseverance rover reached a milestone — 1,000 Martian days, or sols, on Mars. To celebrate, NASA released a 360-degree mosaic of the rover’s current location, as well as a video walkthrough of the scene narrated by Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley. The composite image comprises 993 individual images taken with Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument last year on Nov. 3, Nov. 4 and Nov. 6, and includes a whopping 2.38 billion pixels. You might notice there’s a big difference in color between the team’s image included in this…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover films from dawn to dusk on Mars during downtime (video)
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity had some downtime during November. But rather than resting on its laurels, the robot filmed stunning footage of dawn to dusk on Earth’s neighboring planet. Curiosity filmed two black-and-white videos on Nov. 8 during what was the 4,002nd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. (A sol is a little longer than Earth’s day of 24 hours.) The downtime for Curiosity during its search for life was necessitated by Mars passing around the opposite side of the sun to Earth. During these periods, called Mars solar…
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